Last Thursday I traveled to Universität Bonn on a field trip. Students from my school sat in on lectures ranging a variety of topics, and we later attended presentation for prospective students; this was a very similar experience to the college and university visits that Junior and Senior year US high school students are oh-so-familiar with.… Read the rest

Last week I had the great opportunity of meeting with the BürgermeisterUdo Meister of Schleiden. We talked about my school and family life as an exchange student in Germany, my experience with learning German, life in the Eifel, and the awesome travel opportunities which I’ve had to date.… Read the rest

The exchange program which has given both me and thousands of other international students the wonderful opportunity to live and study in Germany (or the USA) for an entire year faces budget cuts from the United States State Department. Help save an amazing exchange program which fosters youth diplomacy, cultural understanding, international friendships, as well as history and language learning each year for 700 American and German students.… Read the rest

Admittedly, I did too, for a little while at least. Suddenly I was living somewhere where I could purchase goods and services with an assortment of only a few coins. It is quite commonplace for an exchange to be done entirely with these little pieces of alloy.… Read the rest

Just a mouse click away, hidden behind these little blue words, are lots of goodies. You’ll most often land on an highly entertaining and fun to read educational Wikipedia article, but who knows what other internet adventures lay beyond hyperlinks like this

I got a few puzzled looks, and a few people took a step back. Rather, the word that I was looking for was Wohnzimmer. Lebensraum does not mean “living room,” but instead refers to the Nazi ideology of aggressive territorial expansion.… Read the rest

About Andrew

Andrew has a love for travel, computers and technology, photography, history, politics, and other related areas.

After sitting for his International Baccalaureate Diplomma Programme exams, Andrew graduated from Bloomfield Hills High School in June of 2014. Before heading off to join Kalamazoo College's Class of 2019, Andrew spent a year in Germany as a foreign exchange student with YFU under the joint U.S. State Department and German Bundestag CBYX/PPP scholarship.